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'Seen, Heard & Whispered': The conversations happening in Washington's power corridors

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In this Nov. 27, 2018, file photo, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., then incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, addresses an audience during a gathering of business leaders in Boston. The Democrats tried and failed several times to obtain Trump's returns as the minority party in Congress. Their newly energized leftward wing is pushing the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., to set the quest in motion, and fast. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Democrats demand IRS turn over Donald Trump tax returns

The government's chief tax-law writer demanded Wednesday that the IRS turn over President Trump's tax returns, saying Congress must see the secret documents in order to devise new laws governing presidential audits.

April 3, 2019
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks off the House floor following a speech by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a Joint Meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2019, having been invited by the bipartisan leadership of the House of Representatives and the Senate. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

GOP goes ‘nuclear’ to speed Trump nominees through Senate

Republicans triggered the so-called nuclear option Wednesday, changing the interpretation of Senate rules to speed up the time it takes to confirm presidential appointees and creating a glide path for President Trump to fill out his administration and stack the lower federal courts with conservative judges.

April 3, 2019
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., joined at right by Ranking Member Doug Collins, R-Ga., prepares for the start of a hearing on The Equality Act, a comprehensive nondiscrimination bill for LGBT rights, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. Nadler is preparing subpoenas seeking special counsel Robert Mueller's full Russia report as the Justice Department appears likely to miss an April 2 deadline set by Democrats for the report's release. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats approve subpoena for Mueller report, investigative files

The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to give Chairman Jerrold Nadler the power to subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller's full final report and all of his investigative materials, as well as to slap subpoenas on five former Trump associates.

April 3, 2019
In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a Border Patrol agent talks with a group suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. While many adults crossing the border on their own in South Texas try to flee agents, most migrant parents and children wait to surrender so they can be processed and released into the United States. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Dems blast ‘heartless’ Trump border security plans

Top Democrats offered their solutions to the border crisis Wednesday, saying the surge of illegal immigrants from Central America can be solved by sending more money to the region, and by shifting resources here at home.

April 3, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks at the National Republican Congressional Committee's annual spring dinner in Washington, April 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump doubles down on border closure threat

President Trump doubled down Wednesday on his ultimatum that he will "close" the border unless Congress acts, brushing aside advice from his own team at the White House, from business groups and from members of Congress that it would be an economic catastrophe.

April 3, 2019
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez , left, speaks as Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen listens during a meeting in Tegucigalpa, Honduras Wednesday, March 27, 2019. The Secretary of National Security of the United States will discuss with his colleagues from the Northern Triangle a series of actions to counter organized crime and illegal trafficking of migrants and drugs to his country from Central America. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

DHS: ‘Right now the system is on fire’

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen cut short a working trip to Europe to return to the U.S. to manage the border crisis, facing what one department official said Tuesday was a system "on fire."

April 2, 2019
During a training drill, Customs and Border Protection officials block the entrance to the San Ysidro port of entry. (Associated Press/File)

DHS to redeploy up to 2,000 officers to border crisis

Homeland Security will transfer up to 2,000 officers away from the ports of entry to assist the Border Patrol, Homeland Security Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Monday, escalating the all-hands approach to trying to stop the massive illegal immigration surge.

April 1, 2019
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., joined by Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., left, arrives to preside at a meeting directing the attorney general to transmit documents to the House of Representatives relating to the actions of former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. After special counsel Robert Mueller's report was finished, Nadler says Congress must have the opportunity to evaluate the underlying evidence. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

House Dems announce first subpoena in Mueller probe

House Democrats announced plans Monday for their first subpoena in the Mueller probe, saying they'll demand not only the special counsel's final report but his entire investigative work product.

April 1, 2019
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk along the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, March 31, 2019, as they return from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump gripes over Census citizenship setback

President Trump complained Monday about his struggles to get a question about citizenship added to the 2020 census, saying it would be a waste of money carrying out the count unless it includes that inquiry.

April 1, 2019
Caravans of Central Americans and Cubans making their way through Mexico are worsening the crisis at the U.S. border, and people at ports of entry will feel the strain. (Associated Press)

U.S.-Mexico border ‘illegal immigration superhighway’

Anyone crossing the U.S.-Mexico border could end up stuck in longer lines as officers are pulled from the land ports of entry and deployed to help the Border Patrol transport, feed and see to the medical needs of the tens of thousands of people streaming illegally into the U.S. each week.

March 31, 2019
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, center, announced that the Trump administration will temporarily reassign several hundred border inspectors during a news conference at the border in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. McAleenan said the reassignment of 750 border inspectors would mean longer waits at crossings as the busy Easter holiday nears but that it was necessary to address what he called "an operational crisis." The reassigned officers will process migrants, provide transportation and perform hospital watches for migrants who require medical attention. It is unknown when they will return to their regular duties. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Border crisis beginning to bring pain home for Americans

Lines at U.S. border crossings are already increasing after hundreds of officers have already been pulled off duty there are redeployed to help the Border Patrol process the surge of illegal immigrants being caught sneaking into the country elsewhere.

March 29, 2019